Search This Blog

Fixing Issues with Microsoft LifeCam Studio on Windows 10

A recent Windows 10 update seemed to cause my Microsoft LifeCam Studio to start behaving badly. Actually it wasn't so much the webcam itself, which seemed to work fine, but when the video on the webcam was active the entire machine would start behaving extremely sluggishly, even though the CPU and RAM stats were both nominal.

To cite a specific symptomatic situation, if while on a Skype call I'd try to interact with another application such as Chrome or Slack, I'd click on the app and after a few second it would get focus. In the case of Slack, as I type the letters wouldn't appear for several seconds, and then would appear all at once, usually with a few dropped characters. With the video on the webcam disabled, none of this happened.

I dug around a bit and although some of the solutions I found were related to the general webcam issues related to the Windows 10 anniversary update (aka #webcamgate), my webcam wasn't freezing or refusing to work at all as some people were experiencing, but I figured it was close enough to experiment with some of the solutions that worked for people.

Comments

Superb. I really enjoyed very much with this article here. Really it is an amazing article I had ever read. I hope it will help a lot for all. Thank you so much for this amazing posts and please keep update like this excellent article.thank you for sharing such a great blog with us. expecting for your.Digital Marketing Company in India

This is very helpful app that is developed by the team of Microsoft from users can easily fix problems without waste of time. People read reviews for selection of australian essay writing service help that can write their mistake free essays.

Nice to be visiting your blog again, it has been months for me. Well this article that i’ve been waited for so long. I need this article to complete my assignment in the college, and it has same topic with your article. Thanks, great share. ios screen recorder

First of all, we provide escort service in Mumbai at the right time and no one can do it because we are ready to provide 24-hour escort service in Mumbai. The way we are promoting the Mumbai Escort service is hardly another Escort agency will be able to provide Escorts services for Mumbai in this manner.Mumbai EscortsMumbai Escorts ServiceEscorts Service In Mumbai

This specific lifestyle camera create issues more easy currently along with 'Microsoft' genuinely allow it go Outsourcing Devops get people. web site really should have been recently this way which supports anyone out and about pertaining to just about any hiring.

Popular posts from this blog

If you follow me on Google+ you'll know I had a recent rant about Windows Media Center, which after running fine for about a year suddenly decided as of January 29 it was done downloading the program guide and by extension was therefore done recording any TV shows.

I'll spare you more ranting and simply say that none of the suggestions I got (which I appreciate!) worked, and rather than spending more time figuring out why, I decided to try something different.

NextPVR is an awesome free (as in beer, not as in freedom unfortunately ...) PVR application for Windows that with a little bit of tweaking handily replaced Windows Media Center. It can even download guide data, which is apparently something WMC no longer feels like doing.

Background
I wound up going down this road in a rather circuitous way. My initial goal for the weekend project was to get Raspbmc running on one of my Raspberry Pis. The latest version of XBMC has PVR functionality so I was anxious to try that out as a …

This is a first for me since under normal circumstances we run all our Django applications on Linux with Nginx, but we're in the process of developing an application for another department and due to the requirements around this project, we'll be handing the code off to them to deploy. They don't have any experience with Linux or web servers other than IIS, so I recently took up the challenge of figuring out how to run Django applications on Windows Server 2012 with IIS.

Based on the dated or complete lack of information around this I'm assuming it's not something that's very common in the wild, so I thought I'd share what I came up with in case others need to do this.

My setup for my day job these days is a Surface Pro 4 and either an LG 34UC87M-B or a Dell P2715Q monitor, depending on where I'm working. This is a fantastic setup, but some applications have trouble dealing with the high pixel density and don't scale appropriately.
One case in point is Skype for Business. For some reason it scales correctly as I move between the Surface screen and the external monitor when I use the Dell, but on the LG monitor Skype is either massive on the external monitor, or tiny on the Surface screen.
After a big of digging around I came across a solution that worked for me, which is to change a setting in Skype's manifest file (who knew there was one?). On my machine the file is here:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\LYNC.EXE.MANIFEST
And the setting in question is this:<dpiAware>True/PM</dpiAware>
Which I changed to this:
<dpiAware>False/PM</dpiAware>
Note that you'll probably have to edit the file as administr…